A Letterman clip shows him visiting a machine shop and smooshing a six-pack of beer, a lamp, some squash and a bowling ball with an 80-ton hydraulic press. Some things never go out of style.

This week, BGR talked with the channel's founder Lauri Vuohensilta about his newfound Internet fame and his ambitions to take crushing things with hydraulic presses to a whole new level.

Yes, because if a hydraulic press crushing stuff wasn’t enough ... We like to destroy things, we like to test out the limits of our powers, and we like to enjoy doing all of these things from ...

Hydraulic presses have become one of the internet’s favourite things – with a YouTube channel ... they are creating beautiful cups and plates by squashing together coloured clays in a 60 ...

There are lots of fun things to crush with a hydraulic press, but one of the most unexpectedly thrilling is paper. It turns out if you compress paper enough, it explodes with a massive amount of ...

The Hydraulic Press Channel ... videos has inspired him to buy a 1000-ton press with a diameter of half a metre, allowing him to crush much bigger things. "I am trying to find some sponsors ...

a Taiwan-based media company has been creating three to four short hydraulic press videos every week on Facebook. 'Online viewers seem to have a fascination with things getting squeezed ...

The first thing you see is a black and white montage accompanied by an infectious heavy metal soundtrack. A button is pushed, a lever pulled, a needle jumps within a pressure gauge. Then comes a ...

It’s not really able to destroy stuff like a proper hydraulic press, but it can kind of crush a can and amusingly squash a teddy bear. If you’re really keen on making a gear press, though ...

This week, BGR talked with the channel's founder Lauri Vuohensilta about his newfound Internet fame and his ambitions to take crushing things with hydraulic presses to a whole new level.